Yavapai College is proud to announce an evening with award-winning author and illustrator Nora Krug at 7 p.m. Friday, April 3, in the Discovery Room of the Center for Learning and Innovation – Building 19, Room 201, on the Prescott Campus.
Registration is requested for the author talk by visiting yc.edu/CLI
Krug will discuss her work, share readings and answer questions about Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia, a powerful graphic novel that explores the human cost of conflict through the eyes of those living it.
Additionally, Krug’s illustrations and recounting of a Ukrainian journalist’s and a Russian artist’s simultaneous experiences of the war, will be available as an immersive experience in the college’s new “YMAX” 360-degree theater in the Center for Learning and Innovation.
Krug’s visit is sponsored by the Yavapai College Riders Read program and the Literary Southwest.
"Diaries of War” is the college’s Riders Read, or common read, selection for the current academic year. Riders Read aims to spark conversations among the college community on a variety of important topics. “By encouraging engagement with each other, with noted authors, and with the written word itself, Riders Read models the kind of learning that is a hallmark of an active and participatory academic experience,” said Dr. Suzanne Waldenberger, humanities professor and member of the Riders Read Committee at Yavapai College.
Literary Southwest is a Yavapai College Library program that brings the community together for readings and conversations with the finest writers from the West and beyond.
As part of her visit to Yavapai College, Krug is scheduled to meet with students before her public Q&A session. A book signing will follow the public session and copies of Diaries of War will be available for purchase, courtesy of Peregrine Book Company.
The immersive experience in the YMAX theater will be available to everyone between 4:15 and 6:30 p.m. during Krug’s April 3 visit. “We’re bringing the author’s illustrations and diary excerpts into that 360 space. People will hear voices as they look at the images surrounding them,” said Cheryl Colan, a Yavapai College Instructional Designer who is creating the immersive experience for Krug’s visit.
Voicing the Ukrainian journalist’s words in “Diaries of War” for the YMAX experience is Dr. Irina Del Genio, Yavapai College Dean of the Verde Valley Campus, who has lived, studied and worked in both Russia and Ukraine.
The activities around Krug’s visit are free. Registration is requested for the author talk by visiting yc.edu/CLI.
More about Nora Krug:
Nora Krug is an associate professor of illustration at the Parsons School of Design. She is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her latest work, Diaries of War, has been praised for its innovative use of "visual journalism" to bridge the gap between political headlines and personal reality.
Yavapai College operates seven campuses and centers throughout Yavapai County and offers over 100 degrees and certificates, six baccalaureate degrees, student and community services, and cultural events and activities. To learn more about Yavapai College, visit www.yc.edu.
